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How did the first believers in Jesus know that the Gospel was true? Acts 17:11 says, "The Bereans…received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” But which “Scriptures” were they examining? Paul was teaching at a Jewish synagogue, so the scriptures were the Tanakh, which we call the Old Testament. Thus, to be "true", everything Paul said had to agree with the Old Testament!

This book demystifies the so-called God-Science debate. Driver takes on the big questions of our origin and existence while turning the assertion of the Bible’s incompatibility with science on its head, including an unprecedented scientific account of Genesis. Science is God’s witness as creator and affirms the Bible is the divine word of God.

In The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton paints the full panorama of human history in light of Christian tradition. Highly influential in C. S. Lewis' conversion from atheism to Christianity, this book continues to inspire new generations of listeners.

Of the many world religions, only one claims that its founder returned from the grave. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the very cornerstone of Christianity. But a dead man coming back to life? In our sophisticated age, when myth has given way to science, who can take such a claim seriously? How credible is the evidence for - and against - the resurrection? Focusing his award-winning skills as a legal journalist on history's most compelling enigma, Lee Strobel retraces the startling findings that led him from atheism to belief.

Was Jesus real? Where did the Bible come from? Do Catholics worship images? If God is so good and so loving, then why do evil and pain exist in the world? These are hard questions. Many people have strayed from the truth because they’ve pondered these questions and come up without answers. But that’s not because there aren’t any.

If someone came to you right now and asked you to show them evidence for why the Bible is reliable and the resurrection of Jesus is historical fact, what would you say to them? Would you be able to clearly state your reasons and arguments, or would you be embarrassed for not having an answer? This audiobook will give you straightforward arguments and evidence for how the Bible is reliable and why the resurrection of Jesus is to be trusted as historical fact while providing you additional resources to go deeper in your understanding of these topics.

In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction of the New Atheists’s misrepresentations of the Christian past, countering their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.

What if the way to recover our sense of meaning and ultimate transcendent truth was found organically, in the most pure and ethereal settings of the natural world? Theology from the Spring leads listeners through a reformation of nature that rediscovers the beauty of creation, ultimately pointing to the majesty and revelation of its creator.

History tells us that all civilizations progress through a sequence of nine distinct phases that begin and end with bondage. America is hardly immune to this progression. Michael Abbott, Jr. explores the collapsing cultural institutions that have ushered America within one short step of this final, tragic phase. History and human nature suggest that our fate has already been sealed, but Abbott charts a clear path to breaking free.

Andy provides an engaging, honest and understandable approach to life's five biggest questions that will challenge your view of the world and how you live in it.

Chronological day-by-day entries of the teaching, travels, miracles, of Jesus, as they may have looked if he had kept his own diary, with Catholic apologetics commentary by the author. Book one deals with the first year of Jesus' ministry.

Society has changed faster in the past hundred years than in any other period of human history. This change has profound spiritual implications that most of us are completely unaware of. In a unique way, The Last Believer exposes a conspiracy that starts from the beginning of time to the end of the world. It tells how Satan has slowly but surely groomed society to become what it is today, and how he has prepared it for the leadership of the Antichrist in the future.

Many people in the 21st century have tried some kind of diet. In fact, the list of recommended diets seems endless and confusing. In the midst of this confusion, wouldn't it be great if you could speak with God and have him design a diet just for you? Have you wondered what kind of diet God would recommend? This diet would not just be focused on weight loss, but rather a diet for optimal health. Have you ever wondered what kind of diet Jesus followed? Now you can stop wondering!

The Christian faith has been vigorously defended with a variety of philosophical, historical, and theological arguments, but many of the arguments that worked in an earlier age no longer resonate in today's educated West. Where has apologetics gone wrong? What is the best response to the growing challenge presented by scientific discovery and naturalistic thought?

A Skeptic Challenges a Christian is a fictional conversation between a rigorous skeptic and a Christian. The skeptic raises numerous, demanding challenges, including, "How do you know God exists? Hasn't science disproven God and religion? Isn't the resurrection just a legend? Why would a good God allow suffering and evil?" This book is designed for the layperson. It covers a wide range of commonly asked questions posed to those who believe in God. This book is perfect for individuals and small groups.

A frontline of traditionalist Evangelical Christian commentators, like Norman Geisler and David Farnell (coeditors of The Jesus Quest), are promoting a concept of biblical inerrancy that rejects biblical scholarship and fosters an indefensible conception of the Christian faith. In Defining Inerrancy, authors J. P. Holding and Nick Peters lay out the case for a defensible form of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy, which respects the social and literary contexts within which the Bible was written.

The Pajama Philosopher focuses on making a cognitive case for Christianity by examining its philosophical, theological, and practical roots and ramifications. More importantly it invites listeners to become truly self-aware about what they already believe in order to then be able to scrutinize their stances toward reality.

The doctrine of the atonement lies at the heart of the Christian faith. In this book, the doctrine is examined through the lens of the social world of the first century in order to contextualize it, and answer objections to the doctrine of the atonement.

Find out what the Church is as Byron Goines gives an exposition on the Biblical definition of the word "Church." Many have a false concept of the Church based upon man's concept of the Church, which is not scriptural when analyzed in accordance with the New Testament. So-called preachers have utilized the false concept of the Church to become wealthy off of the backs of hardworking people whom they have locked into a mindset that is built on deception.

The secret to life is simple, but since human beings have had organized thoughts, the same questions have surfaced again and again: Why do we exist? What is the purpose of life? Is there a God? If so, is He good? But if He is a good God, how could He permit so much suffering in this world? Why do bad things happen to good people? Where are we coming from, and where are we going? And why are we going at all? Is there life after death? Can we be 100% sure? Was this world just created by chance or does it follow a plan? If you have also pondered some or all of these mysteries, look no further.